<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 22, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Jeff Kelley via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 22, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">How do you handle naming non-mutating versions of these operations? Conjugating other irregular verbs also imposes a barrier on developers whose first language is not English.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">Swift could use “after” as a prefix, or something similar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">array.sort()</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">array.afterSort()</font></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was tempted to say “afterSorting()” but that has the same problems mentioned above.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>That's reminiscent of the way the classic Cocoa naming guidelines cleverly avoided these issues by using the 'did-' prefix consistently instead of ever conjugating verbs into preterite tense. 'after' is a bit awkward, though, as are any other equivalent prefixes i can think of that have the same effect on the past participle (havingSplit? bySplitting?)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Joe</div><br class=""></body></html>